Research Day Statistics and What is Research Day? Dr. Charles C. Tappert Professor of Computer Science Seidenberg School of CSIS 2015 Research Day

What is Research Day? The annual one-day Student-Faculty Research Day Conference provides students and faculty with the opportunity to present their research Held at the Pace Graduate Center in White Plains on the Friday of the last spring weekend session of the Doctor of Professional Studies (DPS) program Makes attendance convenient for DPS students Location convenient to NYC and Pleasantville campuses 2015 Research Day

How is the Conference Conducted? Research Day is similar to external conferences, providing students with a conference experience The faculty review of papers approximates the standard peer review process of external conferences Sessions, session chairs, time monitored presentations Occasional keynote speakers 2012 – Dr. Fran Allen (IBM) at centenary of Alan Turing’s birth 2011 – Accomplished students of Dr. Frank Rosenblatt, the inventor of neural networks called perceptrons 2014 – Adjunct CSIS Faculty member Paul Dantzig (IBM) at centenary of his father George Dantzig’s birth 2015 Research Day

Origin of Research Day Conference Before DPS program, School of CSIS did little research Pace University was, and still is, primarily a teaching institution No associated engineering school Hard science departments, such as mathematics and physics, do little research and basically service the other departments With doctoral programs (DPS and CS PhD) Research oriented faculty hired and students conducted research History of CSIS research platforms 2001: Dr. Tappert began using real-world masters-level projects, in part to support doctoral research 2001: 6 Pace CSIS papers in MASPLAS 2001 at IBM ResearchMASPLAS 2001 Pace University CSIS offered to host the conference the following year (MASPLAS = Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems) 2002: Pace CSIS hosted MASPLAS 2002 at Pace Grad CenterMASPLAS : First Pace CSIS Research Day Conference Started our own conference to avoid travel to attend MASPLAS at other universities 2015 Research Day

Sources of Research Day Papers Faculty Externally funded work, individual faculty research, early versions of papers submitted to external conferences Doctoral Students (DPS and CS PhD programs) Summarize completed dissertation work, describe ongoing dissertation work, present an extended research proposal Masters Students Summarize thesis work, present capstone/other project work Undergraduates Present individual work and course project work Joint work of Seidenberg & non-Seidenberg folks 2015 Research Day

The Michael L. Gargano Annual Research Day The Research Day conference became “The Michael L. Gargano Annual Research Day” in 2009 Following Mike’s passing in 2008 Michael was continually engaged in research activities, often with the students He contributed several papers, often three or four, to the Research Day conference in the early years He advised many students in the DPS Program 2015 Research Day

Research Day Participation Statistics 2015 Research Day Although some participants may have authored several papers, each participant is counted only once.